------- Comment #14 from angray at beeb dot net 2007-05-08 22:02 ------- (In reply to comment #13) > Subject: Re: Compile errors with multiple inheritance where > the stdcall attribute is applied to virtual functions. > rridge at csclub dot uwaterloo dot ca wrote: > > ------- Comment #11 from rridge at csclub dot uwaterloo dot ca 2007-05-08 > > 12:25 ------- > > MSC includes the calling convention as part of its C++ name mangling. Would > > this bug be easier to solve if the calling convention was also included as > > part > > of the C++ name mangling in GCC, instead of done afterwards? If so, it > > might > > be worth this small ABI breaking change in some future release of MinGW. > I think that would be fine, from a C++ perspective.
If indeed XPCOM is dependant upon this then making an ABI namemangling change would break Firefox and Thunderbird addons. Aaron -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27067
